Palestinian Walks : Forays into a Vanishing Landscape (Paperback)

from michaelshade

A superb reflection by a Palestinian on the meanings his land holds for him, and the changes wrought on it by 60 years of Israeli occupation. He recounts a series of half a dozen different walks around his home town, Ramallah, with different walking companions, and tells how one of life's simple ...

from AAlibrarian

Raja Shehadeh takes the reader on the walks he took as a child and youn man through the Palestinian hills, describing the beauty of the landscape, natural history and politics & people. It is his using this mechanism that we learn of the restrictions placed on access to those walks by the taking ...

from AAlibrarian

Raja Shehadeh takes the reader on the walks he took as a child and youn man through the Palestinian hills, describing the beauty of the landscape, natural history and politics & people. It is his using this mechanism that we learn of the restrictions placed on access to those walks by the taking ...

from wandering_star

Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian lawyer, who has spent much of his career challenging the reclamation of West Bank land for settlements. He is also a walker, who sees beauty in the hills where many others have only seen barren hostility - indeed, one of his aims is to make the land seem real and vi...

from Carmenere

Mr. Shehadeh is a Palestinian attorney but more than that he is a walker. When he is frustrated by the outcome of his caseload he loves nothing more than traversing the land which surrounds his home in Ramallah. Every hill, every cave, each artifact he discovers holds a special place in his heart...